Telephone-disinfector.



L. S. HERSHBEHGER.

TELEPHONE DISINFECTOH.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1911.

1,279,342. A Y PatentedSept. 17,1918.

LOUIS S. HERSHBERGER, 0F SMITHSBUR ,;MARYLAND.

TELEPHONE-DISINFECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1918.

Application filed March 28, 1917. Serial No. 157,927.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS S. HnRsHBERouR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Smithsburg, in the county of Washington and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Telephone-Disinfectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to telephone disinfectors and has for an important object to provide in a device of this character a means whereby the device as a whole may be. readily attached to a telephone.

A further object of the invention is to pro- .vide a device of the character described having its elements so arranged with respect to each other as to not interfere with the operation or function of the telephone to which it is attached.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the above mentioned character which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and reliable in operation.

' Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device embodying my invention, and,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device showing the same attached to a telephone.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred form of my invention, the numeral 10 indicates a flexible ring one end of which is provided with a plurality of apertures 11 adapted to receive therein a tongue 12 carried by the other end of the ring. These apertures are provided in order that the ring 10 may be adjusted to fit various sizes of telephone diaphragm chambers, a telephone diaphragm chamber being shown in Fig. 2 and indicated by the numeral 13. To the flexible ring there is secured an L-shaped arm 14 carrying a receiver 15 adapted to receive therein a bottle 16 provided with a bulb 17. The

bottle 16 is provided With a tube 18 adapted mouth piece 19 a spray of disinfectant contained within the bottle 16 the bulb 17 is compressed. Should there, however, be an excess of liquid sprayed into the mouth piece 19, the excess amount Will drain out of the mouth piece 19 and be deposited into the receptacle 21 thus preventing the disinfectant from dropping onto an object such as a table or desk supporting the telephone as a whole. It might be well for me to mention here that by attaching the arm 14 to the side of the ring 10 as clearly shown in Fig. 1 no interference is experienced by one desiring to telephone should he desire to grasp the telephone in one hand as is ofttinies done to use the same.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s:

The combination with a telephone includ ing a standard, a diaphragm'chamber and a mouth-piece, a s lit ring encircling said diaphragm chain er, one end of said ring being provided with a plurality of apertures, a support including a horizontally disposed arm and an elongated vertically disposed stantially 90 from said horizontally disposed arm and a drain receptacle detachably supported by said rack said drain receptacle being disposed directly beneath the outer edge of the mouth-piece of said telephone.

' LOUIS 'HERSHBERGER.

arm, said horizontally disposed arm being secured to said ring, said elongated arm be ing substantially spaced from saidrstandard to permit the standard to he readily grasped 5 by the user of the telephone receiver carried by said elongated arm, a rack carried by said ring said rack "being disposed sub- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

